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Volatility, financial constraints, and trade

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  • García-Vega, María
  • Guariglia, Alessandra
  • Spaliara, Marina-Eliza

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We construct a dynamic monopolistic competition model with heterogeneous firms to study the links between firms' earnings volatility, their degree of financial constraints, their survival probabilities, and their export market participation decisions. Our model predicts that more volatile firms are more likely to face financial constraints and to go bankrupt, need to be more productive to stay in the market, and have more incentives to start exporting. A further implication is that through market diversification, exports tend to stabilize firms' total sales. These predictions are supported by our empirical tests, which are based on a panel of 23,674 UK firms.

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  • García-Vega, María & Guariglia, Alessandra & Spaliara, Marina-Eliza, 2012. "Volatility, financial constraints, and trade," International Review of Economics & Finance, Elsevier, vol. 21(1), pages 57-76.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:reveco:v:21:y:2012:i:1:p:57-76
    DOI: 10.1016/j.iref.2011.05.003
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    Firm-level volatility; Financial constraints; Firm survival; Exports;
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    • D21 - Microeconomics - - Production and Organizations - - - Firm Behavior: Theory
    • F12 - International Economics - - Trade - - - Models of Trade with Imperfect Competition and Scale Economies; Fragmentation
    • G33 - Financial Economics - - Corporate Finance and Governance - - - Bankruptcy; Liquidation
    • L11 - Industrial Organization - - Market Structure, Firm Strategy, and Market Performance - - - Production, Pricing, and Market Structure; Size Distribution of Firms

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